Citizenfour

The Oscar winning documentary, Citizenfour, provides a first-person look at how director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald first met with whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong where he gave them documents showing the widespread abuses of power by the National Security Administration.

The film is an unprecedented fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most groundbreaking moments in recent history.

Snowden, a former NSA contractor, began leaking classified NSA intelligence documents in June 2013, revealing the extent of the agency’s spying activities.

He leaked top secret US government spying programs under which the NSA and the FBI monitor millions of American and European phone records and the Internet data from major Internet companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.